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...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le rainquieur du ruin. guieur de la terre, that I mighl obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending...difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

...public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

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...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

...my attendance so little encouraged, till neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it Who I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had...difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one wri of encouragement,...

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...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...